Photo: Minik in Brooklyn, the mural

The Minik mural on the wall of the Brooklyn Navy Yard: Minik Wallace was taken to New York City with his father and four others by the American explorer Robert Peary in 1897. Nunatsiaq News columnist, historian and writer Kenn Harper documented the results of that tragic trip in his book, “Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo.” Read more about the mural located in the same place where Minik, his father and four other Inuit began their sad experience of life in America. “It is a tribute both to the resilience of inner-city youth and to Minik’s own triumph over tragedy,” writes Harper in this week’s column, June 14 on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY KENN HARPER)